Manager Payroll Unit

State of Maryland-posted 1 day ago

Full-time • Manager

Baltimore City, MD

101-250 employees

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When you join the Maryland Department of Human Services (DHS), you join a team of more than 5,000 employees across the state dedicated to positively changing the lives of more than 1 million Marylanders each year. We do this by providing economic support, preventive services, and caring for children and adults. We aim to deliver services so that we more quickly meet the needs of the people we serve. At DHS, we grapple with hard questions to find new ways to foster a culture of bold innovation. We do this to ensure that in Maryland, we leave no one behind. The Payroll Manager plans, directs and administers the Department’s payroll/leave accounting operations, which authorizes and controls salary and fringe benefit expenditures annually for DHS’s approx. 6,000+ regular and contractual employees. This includes monitoring the Agency’s timekeeping system, SPS, a Workday-based system; developing and monitoring payroll and timekeeping processes and procedures; and leading a team of payroll employees.

Functions as the Payroll Manager and is highly knowledgeable regarding applicable laws, rules, regulations, policies, and procedures and provides effective direction, training and leadership to the Agency.
Develops new procedures, documentation of policies and processes and the monitoring of ongoing effectiveness of these processes and procedures.
Manages the Department’s Salary Distribution System, tracking salary and fringe benefit costs per employee by cost center, according to the Department’s chart of accounts and Federal Cost Allocation Plan.

Graduation from an accredited high school or possession of a high school equivalency certificate.
Four years of administrative staff or professional work.
Candidates may substitute 30 college credit hours from an accredited college or university for each year up to four years of the required experience.
Candidates may substitute the possession of a Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university for the required experience.
Candidates may substitute the possession of a Master's degree from an accredited college or university for the required experience.
Candidates may substitute U.S. Armed Forces military service experience as a commissioned officer involving staff work related to the administration of rules, regulations, policy, procedures and processes, or overseeing or coordinating unit operations or functioning as a staff assistant to a higher ranking commissioned officer on a year-for- year basis for the required experience.
Employees in this classification may be assigned duties which require the operation of a motor vehicle. Employees assigned such duties will be required to possess a motor vehicle operator's license valid in the State of Maryland.

One year of experience with a public sector payroll system (State, Federal, or Local).
One year of experience of supervisory experience.
One year of experience working with Workday and/or Excel.

health insurance, dental, and vision plans offered at a low cost
Personal Leave- new State employees are awarded six (6) personnel days annually (prorated based on start date).
Annual Leave – ten (10) days of accumulated annual leave per year.
Sick Leave – fifteen (15) days of accumulated sick leave per year.
Parental Leave – up to sixty (60) days of paid parental leave upon the birth or adoption of a child.
Holidays – State employees also celebrate at least twelve (12) holiday per year.
Pension – State employees earn credits towards a retirement pension.
Positions may be eligible for telework.

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